![]() ![]() This was predictable, I know: If you are relying on a computer to tell you when to be thirsty, perhaps your problem is bigger than time management alone. at the bottom), treating hydration as a winnable race against time. To help things along, I bought one of those enormous water bottles that break the day down into fluid ounces (7 a.m. I added hourly exhortations to drink water. My “new watch, new you” hopes soon expanded: I kept the “Stand!” reminders and the default step-counter. If I could understand the rhythms of those wayward hours-the deep sleep, the REM sleep, the stretches of enervating wakefulness-maybe I could improve the rest, and with that, my life overall. I’d been sleeping badly quantifying the badness, I thought, might be the first step toward fixing it. I got the “smart” version of one as a gift over the holidays, and I thought of it, at first, as a way to add some order to a stretch of time that felt out of control. And some of those times, I find myself wondering, as I stay in the chair, What exactly am I defying? Sometimes I find myself refusing to heed, in an act of petty rebellion. ![]() The screen sends the same reminder-cheery, vaguely judgy-several times a day. The tiny computer strapped around it lights up with a message, rendered in lilac-blue: I am sitting, the watch informs me. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. ![]()
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